VR/AR Association (VRARA) has over 50 chapters around the world and a community of over 4,200 companies, developers, agencies, universities etc interested in the fields of AR/VR technologies. This complements very well the interests of most of the 500 members of the European Photonics Industry
Consortium (EPIC), that encompass the entire value chain from photonics fields such as lighting, photovoltaic, photonics integrated circuits, optical components, lasers, sensors, imaging, displays, optic fiber and all other photonics related technologies.
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